Seven leading Islamist rebel groups in Syria say they are joining forces. A statement posted online said Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Sham and the Kurdish Islamic Front had agreed to a "gradual merger". It said the new...

Bader Jamous, the secretary General of the national coalition declared that national coalition is the only body in the opposition can decide participants in Geneva 2, because it is the only internationally recognized body of the opposition, according to the Arab League’s decision....

A prominent advocate for Syrian detainess said that the Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush ''is still alive, not executed.'' Artist Yara Sabri quoted a former detainee who had been released recently as saying the revolution's icon and the first Syrian Army defector is arrested in...

After escaping shelling in Damascus and terrifying bloodshed at sea, 14 month-old Palestinian twin girls are now among hundreds of people living in limbo in grimy Egyptian police stations, with no end in sight to their plight. Of the 2 million people who fled Syria's civil war, none...